Dhanora, is a village in Jalgaon Jamod

Jalgaon Jamod

Jalgaon Jamod is a tehsil and a municipal council town situated in the north of Buldhana district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.I t is located near satpuda ranges and is on the border of maharashtra and madhyapraddesh.-Borders:...

 tehsil of Buldhana district

Buldhana district

-Buldhana district is a district in the Amravati division of Maharashtra state in western India. It is situated at the westernmost border of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra and is 500 km from the state capital, Mumbai...

 of Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It is famous for its fair of Mahasiddha Maharaj. It is also known locally as Dhanora (Mahasiddha) to distinguish it from several other villages named Dhanora

Dhanora

Dhanora is a town and a tehsil in Gadchiroli district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.-Geography:Dhanora is located at . It has an average elevation of 230 metres ....

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Dhanora is situated 6 km north-west from Asalgaon on Maharashtra State Highway 194

State Highway 194 (Maharashtra)

MH SH 194 or Maharashtra State Highway 194 runs in Buldhana, Akola and Amravati Districts.It starts from Madhya Pradesh and has a route as Dolarkheda - Ichhapur. It enters Buldhana District and passes through Karanwadi - Khandvi - Asalgaon - Wadi Kh - Jalgaon Jamod on MH SH 195 - Jamod - Karmoda -...

. It is connected to Asalgaon with metalled road.

The yearly fair at Dhanora is one of the significant fairs in Buldhana district. The district gazetteer originally printed in 1910 notes it as the second largest annual fair in the district second only to the fair at Deulgaon Raja. This fair was then too attended by people from distant places like Nashik and Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

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